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Thursday, February 16, 2017

OWASP Comprises 30% of ToolsWatch.org Top Ten Security Tools for 2016

The OWASP Community produces a lot of amazing things. This month we are glad to share that three OWASP Projects have taken spots in 2016 Top Security Tools as voted by ToolsWatch.org Readers. Congratulations and many thanks to the project leaders and many contributors to these projects!

OWASP VBScan Project, the black box vulnerability scanner which detects and analyses VBulletin CMS vulnerabilities in perl, was voted 3rd most popular tool of 2016. You watch demonstrations on the wiki page or help by following up with Mohammad Reza Espargham on GitHub.OWASP ZSC Tool Project placed 6th in the top ten for 2016. The project generates customized shellcodes and convert scripts to an obfuscated script. You can contribute Ali Razmjoo andJohanna Curiel's python project on their GitHub.